Undergrad student Annie Hoffman awarded Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) travel Fellowship

Annie Hoffman, who has worked under the mentorship of Dr. Anthony E. Kline (Physical Medical & Rehabilitation, Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, and Safar Center Associate Director) for over 18 months, received a travel fellowship to attend and present her undergraduate Honors research at the 2007 Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, CA. Annie was 1 of 15 students nationally to receive this award from the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience.  Her other accomplishments include a recent publication as first author investigating the temporal presentation of environmental enrichment after experimental TBI (Hoffman AN, Malena RR, Westergom BP, Luthra P, Cheng JP, Aslam HA, Zafonte RD, Kline AE, Environmental enrichment-mediated functional improvement after experimental traumatic brain injury is contingent on task-specific neurobehavioral experience. Neurosci Lett. 2007 Dec 4; [Epub ahead of print]), co-author on a manuscript published in 2007, and first author on a manuscript based on her Honors work. Annie also won an award for “best rehabilitation research” by a pre-doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Rehabilitation Research Day.  She will be attending graduate school in neuroscience next fall.